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Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in the bloodstream: study

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Post by jryb »

jamiek88 wrote: post #199
jryb wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

During blood donations there's a step where they ask you if it's okay to use your blood (which is indicated by selecting one of two barcode stickers that the technician can't interpret). I assume this is for people who are pressured to donate blood as a group but don't want to out themselves as being ineligible. You could just go do that and select the "don't use my blood" sticker.

Oh wow. I didn’t know that and I’ve had to come up with some lame excuses in the past. So even the tech can’t see that it’ll ultimately be disposed of?

Correct, you take one sticker and place it on the form you're filling out, and place the other somewhere else, I forget where. So when the tech turns around they can't know which one you picked.

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witheld wrote: post #203
hereme888 wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Detoxification/cleansing has always been real, in the alternative and conventional/allopathic medical worlds. I don't know any school of thought that denies the benefits of cleansing (within reason); only those who disagree on how to go about it.

Detoxification is not any part of “conventional medicine”, or, to give it appropriate weight “medicine”. It’s also not part of any “school of thought” that isn’t crackpot garbage (so called “alternative medicine”)

You clearly don't know what you're talking about. Detoxing occurs in medical settings every single day, in every hospital, in almost every clinic.

Example: people overdose on Tylenol, and we may have to give them NAC (N-acetyl-cysteine) to boost their depleted glutathione levels and get rid of the toxins.

Another example: people ingest a poison, and sometimes it's appropriate to make them drink activated charcoal so it can bind the toxins. These types of "Detoxes" are also common (but over-used) in the alternative world.

Another example: with some infections, you can't give too many antibiotics at once or it will overload the body's detox capacity, so things are done to help.

Another example: 9/11 workers who were exposed to massive amounts of toxins from burning building materials afterwards suffered from that exposure. Conventional medical doctors came up with detox protocols including the use of Far Infrared Saunas to help decrease the toxin load in their bodies.

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Post by codyb »

iJohnDoe wrote: post #184
codyb wrote: post #171

As a regular donator, it's really important to watch your iron levels. After donating double red blood cells every time I could for two years my iron levels dropped significantly and had a very negative impact on my quality of life until I figured out what was wrong. Now I eat more spinach and chicken to give myself a boost but I'm taking a little break to recoup before going back again. Either way, donating's great,…

Other than the iron deficiency issue, did you feel like your body was more healthy? More energy? Overall feel better?

Haha, hmm... I'm not sure really. Way too many variables anyways. Have I been drinking? How's my sleep? Am I happy? How'm I eating? Etc, etc.
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